WORLD LITERATURE- OVID, DANTE, CHAUCER, AND PETRARCH

World Literature- Ovid, Dante, Chaucer, and Petrarch

World Literature- Ovid, Dante, Chaucer, and Petrarch

Ovid, Dante, Chaucer, and Petrarch

Italian scholar, poet, and humanist, a major force in the development of the Renaissance, famous for his poems addressed to Laura, an idealized beloved whom he met in 1327 and who died in 1348. Attempts have been made to identify her, but all that is known is that Petrarch met Laura in Avignon, where he had entered the household of an influential cardinal. She is generally believed to have been the 19-year-old wife of Hugues de Sade. Petrarch saw ...